#dunkings

This post, in response to the common phrase "kill the cop inside your head", is just dumb. A perfect example of the twitter-style one-line joke that the author believes is some cutting Oscar Wilde-like witticism, but is just a stupid self-own, that reveals the author's ignorance.

Oscar Wilde, who was a great writer that could actually write pithy one-sentence aphorisms like this that were actually insightful, and one of those from the play An Ideal Husband could actually stand as a great rebuttal to the screenshotted post: "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."

But let's dig deeper.

Because, yes, for most people "the cop in your head" and their "moral compass" is the same thing. They view morality, as laws that aren't enforced by the police, and sometimes take it upon themselves to enforce them.

That's because conventional morality is a product of the same class society that created the law and the mechanism to enforce it. The law, the police and morality are all tools of control and oppression for this class society. A society's morality is part of the ruling ideology that justifies that society, the ideas of the ruling class that justify their rule. It's how capitalism and the patriarchy justify itself, it's how the bigotries it produces are justified.

And that morality is taught to society's members through institutions like the family, schools, the media and its laws, and internalized by the individuals, that internalization of what you are taught is what most people call their "moral compass".

So yes, please critically examine the values you were taught, "kill your moral compass."